[Catalyst] Re: Upload problem

[J. Shirley]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Adeola Awoyemi
<adeola at digitalcraftsmen.net> wrote:
> On 23/12/08 10:33, Florent Angly wrote:
>>
>> I still haven't made any progress on this issue... Any hint on where to
>> look to debug this problem?
>> Thanks,
>> Florent
>
> Hi Florent,
>
> I suspect this is not working because the file is too big. Web uploads are
> really meant to small files - I'd say not more that 10MB (I'd usually go for
> less). But, if you want to upload xxGB size files, I'd say use FTP, scp or
> rsync. I think this is why you haven't had a response?
>
> HTH
> Adeola.

This isn't true at all.  The previous notion of upload limits (thanks
CGI.pm) are mostly there to prevent DDoS attacks, but not because of
some intention.

As Tom points out, a lot of applications are used to much larger uploads.

-J